Login
In this article you can learn the various ways of customizing the Umbraco backoffice login screen and form.
To access the backoffice, you will need to login. You can do this by adding
/umbraco at the end of your website URL, e.g. http://mywebsite.com/umbraco.You will be presented with a login form similar to this:
Login screen
The login screen contains a Greeting, Email, Password field and optionally a Forgotten password link
Below, you will find instructions on how to customize the login screen.
The login screen features a greeting that you can personalize by overriding the existing language translation keys. To do this, create a 'user' translation file for the default language of your Umbraco site, (usually en-US) to override the greetings. For en-US, you'd first need to create a
config folder at the root of your project.In the config folder create a folder called
lang and create a file called: en_us.user.xml. Then take the relevant keys (listed below) and add them to your ~/config/lang/en_us.user.xml file, and update the greetings as necessary.<language culture="en-US">
<area alias="login">
<key alias="greeting0">Happy super Sunday</key>
<key alias="greeting1">Happy manic Monday </key>
<key alias="greeting2">Happy tubular Tuesday</key>
<key alias="greeting3">Happy wonderful Wednesday</key>
<key alias="greeting4">Happy thunderous Thursday</key>
<key alias="greeting5">Happy funky Friday</key>
<key alias="greeting6">Happy Caturday</key>
</area>
</language>
- Before the changes takes place you will need to restart the site.
You can customize other text on the login screen as well. First, grab the default values and keys from the en.xml in the Umbraco CMS Github repository. Thereafter copy the ones you want to translate into
~/config/lang/en_us.user.xml file.The Forgotten password? link allows your backoffice users to reset their password. To use this feature, you will need to add the following key to the
Umbraco.Cms.Security section in the appsettings.json file:"Umbraco": {
"CMS": {
"Security": {
"AllowPasswordReset": true
}
}
}
Set it to
true to enable the password reset feature, and false to disable the feature.You will also need to configure an Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server in your
appsettings.json file. When you get a successful result on the SMTP configuration when running a health check in the backoffice, you are good to go!An example:
"Umbraco": {
"CMS": {
"Global": {
"Id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
"Smtp": {
"From": "[email protected]",
"Host": "127.0.0.1",
"Username": "username",
"Password": "password"
}
}
}
}
It is possible to customize the background image and the logo for the backoffice login screen by adding the
"Content" section in the appsettings.json file:"Umbraco": {
"CMS": {
"Content": {
"LoginBackgroundImage": "../myImagesFolder/myLogin.jpg",
"LoginLogoImage": "../myImagesFolder/myLogo.svg"
}
}
}
The
LoginBackgroundImage and LoginLogoImage are referenced from the /wwwroot/umbraco/ folder.To affect the styling of the images add a folder to the
/App_Plugins folder containing a CSS folder, containing a CSS file, and a package.manifest file. An example structure might be:/App_Plugins
/myLoginFolder
/css
/myLoginStyles.css
/package.manifest
An example stylesheet might be:
.login-overlay {
background-color: #000;
}
.login-overlay__background-image {
/* Override background image opacity here if needed */
/* opacity is set to 0.05 by default if background images is set */
/*opacity:0.05;*/
opacity:0;
background-size:contain;
background-image: none;
}
div.login-overlay__logo {
width: 10%;
}
An example package.manifest might be:
{
css: [
'~/App_Plugins/myLoginFolder/css/myLoginStyles.css'
]
}
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